Tiger
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Would bring clarity and urgency if they gave each new strain the year number, i.e., covid-23, covid-24 etc. instead of covid-19 which feels has been.
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Would bring clarity and urgency if they gave each new strain the year number, i.e., covid-23, covid-24 etc. instead of covid-19 which feels has been.
Krugerrand
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It is social signaling. Just as the like, the funny, the disagree, the whatever emoji choices made in response to the post and now to this post are social signaling.
That some have decided to denote the tweets as ‘negative’ speaks to ‘you’, not the tweeters.
Take out any emotional response or opinion about the tweets and just read the words, and suddenly you’re not triggered and you can see it’s a valid question to ask as an attempt to understand why people do what they do, why they’ve changed and so on. That’s how we learn about each other without judgement.
Why do you continue to wear a mask after the pandemic is over when you never wore a mask before?
The answers are likely numerous and wide varying. Some you may agree with, some not.
Let me start us off. I quickly realized during the pandemic that I’m genetically designed, mentally, emotionally, and physically, to survive and be content in such situations. My life didn’t hardly change at all during the pandemic and I didn’t have to wear a mask very much during it.
I rarely wear a mask now because my lifestyle continues to not include a lot of in-person socializing. Additionally, the vast majority of my time is spent outdoors.
When needing to be near people I make choices; like when I shop, I go at off-peak shopping hours and I’ll skip an aisle when there’s more than one other person in it coming back later. I did that before the pandemic. I still social distance and I did that before the pandemic. I use the self-checkouts - not that there’s much other choice nowadays in most places.
I will still occasionally wear a mask in those few situations I find myself where a lot of people will be I can’t get away from - like an airport/in a plane. I’m the person at the airport off in the corner as far away from people as possible. I’m the window seat person with my hoodie up, ear buds in, and turned away from everyone trying to sleep. I don’t even acknowledge the flight attendants during snack times. I did that before the pandemic too.
If I’m wearing a mask now, it’s because I simply don’t trust that the people not wearing masks aren’t sick, I don’t want what they have, and I can’t get away from them. It’s always seemed to me throughout my adulthood that if you’re sick, stay home and away from people. If you can’t, wearing a mask is at minimum logical.
I still see people wearing masks. Not a lot as the population is low around the mountain. It seems to me it’s typically elderly people, but not always. Sometimes it’s someone with a cough and I respect and appreciate them so much for keeping it to themselves.
Someone wearing a mask today is someone social signaling to me that they are keeping their germs to themselves and/or don’t want to be exposed to others’ germs for any number of reasons. I respect that.
Someone not wearing a mask today is someone social signaling to me that they aren’t or don’t think they are sick and/or they’re fine with whatever germs they have co-mingling with others, and they are fine with possibly becoming sick from someone else’s germs. I respect that.
Everyone makes their own choices for their own reasons. Stop jumping to negative conclusions and negativity in general. You aren’t walking in their shoes, so you don’t know.
Precisely. The person with the mask may be particularly susceptible. That's not social signalling. It's doing what they may need to do to survive.
It's disingenuous at best, stupid at worst, to paint everyone with the same brush.
Yep. And pointing out "the pandemic is over" is disengenous. The world changed. The pandemic is only over because COVID is now endemic. They wear a mask now because the risks of not doing so are greater than prior to 2020. If someone is high risk, then they should be able to wear a mask without being judged to be leftist snowflakes. Personally I only wear one at work these days, but I don't fault anyone who feels the need to wear one
One of our docs attended a 100th birthday celebration for one of his patients recently, unmasked because that's now the norm. He got COVID, and although he is fine, his patients, over a hundred, had to be rescheduled out, many several months. Does he wish he'd worn a mask? You can bet he does.
"Social signalling" my butt.
Someone should whack Elmo upside the head.
"Social signalling" my butt.
Someone should whack Elmo upside the head.
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AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
This will be our summer wave, probably. Oh well…was hoping it might be a bit longer before something came along with any significant advantage.Holding ...
Tiger
Active Member
Can someone elaborate why they call it "most interesting"? Do they mean significant?
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
Yeah just the fact it is showing up in multiple countries in short order suggests it may be outcompeting JN.1. Hard to know by how much at this point.
Apparently not every physician is required to pass Public Health and Epidemiology courses.
Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
Florida surgeon general defies science amid measles outbreak
Cognitive deficit following Covid, both short duration and persistent disease. NIH study.
This is a free article from the New England Journal of Medicine. It is an observational study, with all of the attendant problems, and has a good section discussing that.
TDLR: cognitive deficits persisted in study subjects after both short duration and long duration Covid compared to controls who never had Covid.
This is a free article from the New England Journal of Medicine. It is an observational study, with all of the attendant problems, and has a good section discussing that.
TDLR: cognitive deficits persisted in study subjects after both short duration and long duration Covid compared to controls who never had Covid.
scottf200
Well-Known Member
AlanSubie4Life
Efficiency Obsessed Member
I feel my immunity is similar probably. Similar number of updated boosters.
Happy 4th Anniversary of COVID 19 being declared a Global Pandemic by WHO.
The day everything changed
The day everything changed
scottf200
Well-Known Member
New contestants from the JN.1 lineage
The CDC sent a V-Safe text message saying some people are eligible for a Covid booster (apparently the one year between has changed). I went to get one but couldn't because the pharmacy said the Medicare payment system is down and has been for three weeks. Any confirmation on this?
Probably regional. I'm pretty sure the admin at my hospital would be on suicide precautions if we weren't able to bill medicare for 3 weeks.
UnitedHealth cyberattack "one of the most stressful things we've gone through," doctor says
More than three weeks since the ransomware attack, a doctor tells CBS News her practice is still unable to "submit a single insurance claim."
www.cbsnews.com
Yes, healthcare industry has been a mess for about a month now.
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